Foreign News: The Sequences

Officially, the U.S. and Britain "see eye to eye on the imperative
necessity of an early settlement in the Middle East." But in practice,
a pointed difference turned up last week. At the very moment that
Israel was asking the U.S. State Department for arms to meet "the grave
national emergency" created by Egypt's Soviet arms deal, Sir Anthony
Eden was pushing a "compromise" plan to redraw Israel's border in favor
of her neighbors. Eden, anxious to avert war (but also hopeful of
weaning the oil-rich Arab states away from Soviet influence), proposed
that new frontiers be drawn around Israel some...